Roblox is most likely more worried about this whole lawsuit than actually thinking logically? I am not super sure.
This is stupid, the privacy part is one thing, but why are you setting all existing audios longer than 6 seconds to be private automatically. Most old users arenât gonna log back on and if they do they probably wonât set their audios to public. Your pretty much taking away are entire audio library. The annoying part is that even though thereâs hundreds of other developers saying this exact thing, I know Roblox is still gonna go through with it.
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Good points. The short deadline and upload limit is ridiculous for sure. The only thing these devs can do to protect their game is go through their scripts and make sure they donât break due to missing audio, and try to find substitute audio, even if its just temporary.
Iâd rather have a silent game than a broken game.
Iâd rather not have any of these issues, but we got em.
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It really shouldnât. I canât believe all it takes is one lawsuit, and Roblox just loses it. If it gets really bad we still have unity, and itch.io as replacements
People are just upset about this update. Iâm upset about it, people with boombox gamepasses are upset about it, weâre all upset about it in some way. The way Roblox is handling this update is probably making people upset enough to threaten to leave Roblox.
I slightly disagree with this; A lot of older updates didnât seem to be that massively harmful in the long term, but tampering with audios in the way Roblox is doing now probably would be. Yeah, there were worse ones out there, but this one feels specially rotten.
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I donât think anybody is. Weâre all in the dark here
Exactly. As an example, BSlick makes music for Piggy (aka MiniToonâs game). So, are you literally not going to allow developers to use that audio?
Roblox couldâve given us like a month at least. But 2 weeks isnât enough time. Thereâs games like Jailbreak. Just think about the sounds. Like, each of the vehicle has itâs own sound. Not vehicles only, but weapons, footsteps etc.
Roblox really donât wanna get sued by a couple hundred million dollars again.
Pretty much, you could say that, they donât want copyrighted music in their platform.
Understandable mate. Take layered clothing as an example. First, when we heard and saw a picture of layered clothing on an RTHRO avatar, we were like âHere we go again.â And the entire Roblox community was really upset with what theyâve done. But later, we have seen that R15 users were also able to use it. And it was optional so we didnât have to worry about this update forcing on us.
But the audio update is forced on everybody, and theyâre not even giving us a refund? This is not an âOk Ok weâre gonna fix thisâ situation anymore, because we all know, theyâre always lazy to fix stuff like avatar items (example).
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I might be wrong, but I think this whole issue could have been delayed or prevented if ROBLOX really stepped up on their copyright bot?
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This is possibly the most detrimental thing to the playerbase of Roblox, even as a normal player. PLEASE do not push out this update, I highly advise against it. Find another solution or cancel it entirely.
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And since that didnât really happen, look where it got us now. In a corner, having to most likely deal with this massive change that could most likely affect small â popular developers. I really demand a reason why we are so restricted now. We canât even pay for audios after hitting the limit, why is the limit so low? Not to mention that special people who ID verify/randomly get the benefit of 2000 uploads are less likely to worry about them hitting the limit (sometimes). It deeply saddens me that we havenât been updated at all. No feedback or anything. Being left in the dark so much about a lot of issues really makes me reconsider my entire choice of being a developer. 
I honestly got to agree that this is the most damaging update Roblox has ever seen. And it is pretty damaging to the site. Roblox is going to be a lot boring, if people cant use each otherâs audios
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Making audios private that werenât private in the first place is bad idea in the first place. I hope the entire closing the library is temporary. I seriously depend on the library for sounds.
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and as well you have to remember most users have also stayed because they grew up with the platform and now since a year ago roblox has been trying to completely change the platform to something else that is isnt
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Amazing man thanks hopefully i can reupload some audios
I think that was mainly because of the bad first impressions people were left with when they first revealed it, especially in a climate where Rthro is still really seen as a novelty at best and annoyance to most players. Layered clothing seems really fun, but itâs still sorta rough around the edges here and there that needs to be ironed out.
I feel like thereâs kinda a line that has to be crossed for a update to be considered REALLY harmful; And if you couldnât tell by my thoughts on this update, I feel like this update crossed that line. While updates like layered clothing and builderâs club turning into premium didnât really hurt in the long run and people got used to it quickly enough, the rash decisions made for the Roblox audio update could leave a fallout that could linger on for years.
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If this entire update was about allowing more control of who can use audios was it, then this update could be a success. Except they are going to remove 90% of the library from developers who rely on it. and then add a no fee (which could have been great, if it wasnât for them removing the option to pay for them when hitting max uploads.) which makes developers wait for a month just to be able to use another 10 uploads (if they were only provided with 10). Itâs unfair, we deserve to be heard. Someone in the staff team should have seen whatâs going on in this thread. At least⌠Thatâs what I hope thatâs the caseâŚ
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Roblox is really putting olâ uncle Jerryâs shotgun up to their head with this new update.
For real though, who at roblox thought privating all sound assets over six seconds AND limiting us to 10-100 audio uploads a month would benefit the platform in any way?
I know there was a lawsuit and stuff but, Roblox is a billion dollar company. Couldnât they think of a better way to deal with this?
They couldâve hired some bright minds to find a creative solution for this, they could even put a LED strip in their head to make their minds even brighter.
But no, roblox decided to push out a #### update that could possibly lead to some big games losing massive amounts of players. Some older games where the developer doesnât work on them anymore are going to suffer. A lot.
They should at least let us use audios not uploaded by us, remove the allowed upload limit per month, DONT PRIVATE ALL AUDIOS. Hmmmm, but wait, that sounds like the whole update. I wonder why 
If bigger developers can shut down their game for long enough, roblox will lose so much profit that theyâll have no other choice but to reverse this update.
Roblox is nothing without its developers, so they should treat us better
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Audio has always been being copyrighted? You do know big emote games bypass their system.
Uploaded an audio more than 18 hours ago and its still not moderated.
I guess this âupdateâ made the moderation queue longer than ever. Good job.
Itâs sad to know how poorly us developers get treated with these updates. Like some us spend so much time just to make something fun for others to play. Something for others to pass their time on. Why canât we be treated fairly?
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